To play videos that are of formats that are not standard to windows many people will use a program called VLC. This programs allows all kinds of video files to be played. Many people will try to play avi files in windows media player and may only get sound. This is because the computer that is playing the video lacks the video codec needed to play the video format.

The max amount of RAM that a computer can have is determined by the operating system (windows) and the motherboard. Windows XP is said to have a max amount of RAM of 2.5 gigabytes. A motherboard will limit the RAM to 8 gigabytes, 16 gigabytes, or something like that. Check with the operating system and the motherboard to see how many gigabytes of memory the computer can use.

If you use windows vista or windows 7, you can have much more memory at your disposal. Windows Vista naturally takes more memory than Windows XP and does not cap at 2.5 gigabytes.

If your computer is already infected with adware, spyware, or a virus the surest and best way to fix the problem is to backup all your important files then format or erase your hard drive then reinstall your operating system (windows xp). One obvious way you can know if you have adware is that webpages open up randomly to the same place or when you aren’t even browsing the internet.(more…)

With all the different cameras, cell phones, and video cameras there are a lot of different formats of a video file. For example windows’ format is .WMV and Macintosh’s is .MOV. There are different formats because they all offer different quality and file sizes. To view a wide variety of video formats you can download a program called VLC. Here is the link: www.videolan.org/vlc/(more…)